Doom Metal 2010s Albums

Sunn O)))'s eighth album, from April 2019, recorded and mixed by Steve Albini entirely on analogue tape.

Despite its title, Grimmest Hits is not a compilation but Black Label Society’s tenth studio record, packed with the band’s heaviest strengths.

Ghost's fourth studio album, from June 2018, built on the Black Death and the Middle Ages; it entered the Billboard 200 at number three.

Sleep's fourth album, released without warning on 20 April 2018, fifteen years after Dopesmoker.

The third Bell Witch album, from October 2017: one eighty-three-minute song, in memory of their late drummer.

The third album by Arkansas's Pallbearer, from March 2017, bringing progressive rock structure into doom.

Paradise Lost's fifteenth album, released by Nuclear Blast on 1 September 2017: slower and heavier with doom than anything before it, as Gregor Mackintosh promised.

The second ColdWorld album, from July 2016, eight years after the first: one man's atmospheric black metal from Germany.

Ghost's third album, from August 2015; "Cirice" from it won the 2016 Grammy for best metal performance.

Paradise Lost's fourteenth album, released by Century Media on 1 June 2015: dark yet melodic, with what Nick Holmes called the death metal edge of their earliest days.

Cult layers To/Die/For’s dark gothic-metal atmosphere, lyrical guitar and melancholy vocals.

Catacombs of the Black Vatican combines Black Label Society’s heavyweight riffs with a blues-born sense of melody, creating a record with deep shadows.

Down's second six-song EP in the Down IV series, from May 2014, and the only record they made with Bobby Landgraf on guitar in place of Kirk Windstein.

Triptykon's second album, from April 2014, and the last album cover H. R. Giger ever made.

13 returns Black Sabbath to low, rolling guitar riffs, sticky rhythm and an apocalyptic atmosphere.

Cathedral's tenth and final studio album, from April 2013: made after announcing their split, and back in the heavy, slow doom of their debut.

Ghost's second album, from April 2013: recorded in Nashville, their major label debut, and a 2014 Grammis winner.

Down's first six-song EP in the Down IV series, from September 2012 and also known as The Purple EP. It was their first new music in five years.

Paradise Lost's thirteenth album, released by Century Media on 24 April 2012: produced by Jens Bogren, and the first studio album with Adrian Erlandsson on drums.

Samsara uses shadowed melodies, heavy guitar and restrained vocals to create dark, emotional gothic metal.

The second album by Cambridge's Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, from 2011: self-released, and the record that broke them.

Order of the Black puts Zakk Wylde’s thick guitar riffs, heavy groove and bluesy song sense at the front in classic Black Label Society fashion.

Cathedral's ninth album, from March 2010 and their first double album: thirteen songs that bring in Mellotron, sitar and a guest female voice.

The debut album by Sweden's Ghost, released by Rise Above Records in October 2010 and nominated for a Grammis.

The debut album by Triptykon, the band Thomas Gabriel Fischer formed after Celtic Frost. Released in March 2010.